Meet the Facilitators

Shinzen Young is an American mindfulness teacher and neuroscience research consultant. His systematic approach to categorizing, adapting and teaching meditation has resulted in collaborations with Harvard Medical School.... Read More...

Adam Coutts loves to meditate, and he loves sharing with others the blessings that he has found through meditation; spaciousness, peacefulness, self-awareness, meaning, clarity, and vitality. Adam began teaching meditation Read More...

Myoshin (Maria) Gonzalez (BCom, MBA)is an award winning and best-selling author and a 30-year business veteran as a corporate executive and entrepreneur. She believes that Mindfulness transforms lives and organizations, and.... Read More...

Daron Larson helps people feel more at home in their lives through attention training. He loves working with people who are new to mindfulness or have given up because they’re convinced they’re doing it wrong — an idea he.... Read More...

Danny Morris I first came to mindfulness practice from a deep interest in the nature of mind and the nature of reality. Having a strong scientific background, physics was the primary way I understood why things were the way they were. When I first learned of.... Read More...

Julianna Raye has had a daily sitting practice for 14 years. For the past 12 years, she has attended intensive week-long and two-week-long silent retreats 4 times yearly, with either Shinzen Young or Kyozan Joshu Sasaki. For 9 years, she has facilitated.... Read More...

Soryu Forall Scott As a child, I watched people destroying life on earth and I knew that “I must do something.” I wanted to face the problem directly, but I did not know how. As a teen, I left home to study selfishness and the end of selfishness.... Read More...

Janet (Koshin) Sims is a psychologist, author, and was once described by a friend as ‘an emotionally intelligent geek’. In 1997 Thich Nhat Hanh opened The Green Mountain Dharma Center just a few miles from her home in Vermont.... Read More...

Rakhel Shapiro has over a decade of dedicated mindfulness practice in the insight meditation and Unified Mindfulness traditions, including intensive silent retreat practice and work with a one-on-one mentor. She is Co-Founder and Teacher at ... Read More...

Tarver With well over a decade of experience as a student of a range of meditation techniques, including Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), Shambhala, and Goenka Vipassana, Tarver now practices and teaches.... Read More...

Chris Trani Bringing practice to life – figuratively and literally. That describes Chris Trani’s primary motivation for and outcome of her mindfulness practice. It is also what guides her when given the privilege of serving others as a mindfulness.... Read More...

Jeff Warren is a journalist and meditation teacher. He’s the author of The Head Trip – a travel guide through waking, sleeping, and dreaming – and has written for The New York Times, The New Scientist, Discover, and others. He guides.... Read More...

Janusz Welin I was raised by all women on a hippie farm in Rhode Island. I first discovered Buddhism when I was 13 as an answer to the dissatisfaction and disconnection I felt in relation to society, giving me the first taste of.... Read More...

Shelly Young I became interested in meditation practice in 1980 as a result of immense suffering around a debilitating sugar/food addiction, anxiety and depression. Traditional therapy gave me no beneficial effects. I found.... Read More...